From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Adam" 
wrote in message news:458aabf4{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> yeah but execs need their ferraris & feelings of importance &
>>> entitlement on the back artists etc.
>>
>> But artists *need* to be kicked in the teeth to produce great art.  I
>> can't remember the exact phrase or who it is attributed to, maybe
>> Geothe, but it goes something like 'only out of the deeply agitated
>> heart comes words (art?) to move men's souls.'
>>
>> - Richard
>
> Great art is born out of great suffering....
>
> ergo today's "pop idol" crap.

Isn't that supposed to be the "artist" who is suffering, and not
the audience?


Antti Kurenniemi
(holy cow, man, those idol competitions are mind-boggling!)

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